There is an ocean full of canned sardines at local markets, but which ones are really worth buying? Tasting through more than a dozen samples, the range of quality was astonishing. There were sardines ...

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Cooking is not just transformational, but also transporting. Transporting in terms of place or time. Even just the smell of a particular food can take you back to a moment in the past à la Marcel ...

This is one of those recipes that I got from my French mother-in-law and appropriately bastardized to suit my tastes. Cream cheese, kale, and hot sauce are not commonplace in France, but I thought ...

No one could have predicted that the mid-2020s would prove to be such a renaissance for sardine lovers. Since the pandemic, tinned fish has fully cemented its reputation as “hot girl food,” with the ...

Effortlessly melding French class with a healthy dose of rustic charm, Sardine, located at 617 Williamson St., is a trendy French-American bistro, and it manages to delight the palates and unfailing ...

Scowling and cursing, the captains of 130 big French fishing smacks put to sea at Douarnenez last week, every smack loaded to the gunwales with sardines. “These sardines—more than 1,000,000 ...

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